Warnings: Yaoi
Addiction
By: Emmy and Erin (the only girl in the world who's cooking Yukito and Gourry -won't- touch)
Part Two
Leon crossed his arms as he walked into the AD Police building, hearing a voice calling him. A rather agitating voice at that. "Dough-boy!"
"What the hell do you want, kid?!" He growled to the youth of flashed a V with her fingers to him. "I was just wondering about Whaley-Daley, when is the last time you talked to him?" Leon thought for a moment and then answered to her, moving his folded hands to his hips.
"Well, yesterday when he let me have it, but I left a message on his answering machine..."
"Let me guess, he didn't return the call?"
"Well it was late and --"
"Has that ever stopped him before?"
"Well, no, but still, he had a long day!" Leon continued to protest fruitlessly.
"You're pathetic, dough-boy."
"I'm leaving!" Leon turned the other way and headed to Daley's and his own office. Away from Nene and her questions. When he got to the office he opened the door, expecting to see Daley already at his desk, or, if not the man himself, a coat or something to show he'd been there. Instead, he saw nothing.
I was already running late when I left my apartment, and then, since I got stuck in traffic, I ended up being forty-five minutes late. I can feel myself getting tense as each minute passes, and by the time I walk through the doors at headquarters I know I'm wound as tight as a spring that has been wound a couple coils to tight. I just hope today will be better than yesterday.
But, of course, it won't be. I know that as soon as I walk to my desk, which has a note on it from the chief. Fun, fun, fun. So I turn around and walk right back out of my office, but of course, I notice that Leon is not there. I noticed that as soon as I walked through the door.
As I walk to the Chief's office I can feel people staring at me. I guess my behavior yesterday was a little out of hand. But I did have reason to be upset. It's not my fault Leon didn't notice I was gone. It's not as if I could visit him. The chief eyed me as I walked in and, as I had done so many times in the past, shut the door.
"What is it, sir?" I asked, and he gestured for me to sit down. I had, and I found him breathing in deeply, and then looking me straight in the eyes. That stern look told me exactly what it was about, even though I had already guessed. "Daley, you're usually a good cop and I'm not going to over look that. It's usually Leon that I have to bash, but your actions yesterday were inexcusable. I think you know that too. And for that reason, we need to do something about it."
"What kind of something?" My voice was calm and controlled.
"I'm afraid this can't be helped. I'm docking your pay for a week."
I froze, I was going to starve for a week and I knew it.
"Is that all, sir?" I asked again and he nodded, "Daley, I'm sorry about this, but yesterday was inexcusable."
"Aa." I walked out of the office quickly.
The rest of the morning was spent partner less, and I sat at my desk, going over the paperwork Leon had done, making sure he hadn't screwed it up. He hadn't too much, so by the time it came to lunch I was trying to figure out how much money I had left from my last paycheck. Oh yeah. Two hundred dollars. I'm so dead.
I had just looked at the clock and noticed the time, and seeing it was lunch I stood up, intending to go. Then Leon walked in, followed by the new girl Linna. His eyes brightened when he saw me and he relaxed a bit.
"Daley! How're you feeling?" He asked as he went to the coat rack, grabbing his long trench coat. I shrugged in response and walked towards the door, around Linna. "Oi! Wait up! You're going to lunch aren't you?"
"Aa."
"Then why don't you come with me? I was just going to give Linna some papers, then we can go." I shook my head internally, but externally, I nodded. I can never really refuse Leon, I've never been able to. That can be a serious weakness at times. Like now.
"Good!" Leon slipped his coat on and handed Linna some papers quickly. She smiled at me and I gave her a brief smile back as she went back to her workstation, Leon walking out behind her. I followed and met Leon where he was waiting by our patrol car. I slipped into the passenger side, while Leon got in opposite of me.
"So Daley, where do you want to go?" Leon asked as we pulled out of the parking lot. My answer to him was simple.
"Doesn't matter." Leon gave me a slightly strange look, but I chose to ignore it. After all, I think he's going to be doing that for quite a while.
"Huh? Are you sure you don't care?" I nodded and he decided to go along with my moodiness. Which was, I can assume, a good choice. "I heard about a really good Chinese place the other day. Want to try it?"
"Why not?."
Leon turned the wheel and pulled into traffic as I leaned back into the chair. It was remarkable how comfortable the patrol cars were compared to the cramped office space that I had continually worked in, day in and day out. That was, went we weren't busy chasing after rouge boomers.
"So, you got my message last night? When time did you end up getting home?"
"Yeah, I got it. Late."
"I figured, what was keeping you out that late?"
"I stayed at the fitness center. I needed to work off a bit of the built up stress."
"...I'm sorry --"
"Leon, just don't worry about it now, it's a little late."
"If you're going to be hostile like this, why did you agree to come with me?" His voice wasn't mad, but it almost reminded me of a child seeking the advice of a parent. I had never seen Leon look so vulnerable.
"I'm hungry and this saves on gas."
"So that's it?" Well, it was a very good reason because, if I used up all of my money, I was a soon-to-be freeloader. I could always ask one of my friends for a loan, the banks nowadays were untrustworthy, but that was still beside the point. Was that the only reason that I decided to come? Besides the fact that I couldn't refuse him, it was out of my power to do so.
"No, I suppose it wasn't."
"Then are you going to fill me in on the real reason?" He inquired earnestly.
"I'll think about it."
I saw him face vault as he drove and shook his head, keeping his eyes on the road and heading and continuing his drive. After a few moments of silence, we found ourselves as the Chinese Restaurant that he had been talking about. I scanned the title and folded my arms. "Neko Hanten? As long as I don't see a shape-shifting girl or panda I'll be fine."
"You mean that one show, Ramen 1/4 from the 1900's?"
"Ranma 1/2. Rumiko Takahashi is very popular, even now. Too bad it's her family that's inheriting all the money."
"I didn't know that you were so well educated in 20th century anime!"
"You'd be surprised." I muttered as I got out of the car, with Leon giving me another of the looks I have a feeling I'll be getting use to. I'm pretty sure I'm right.
"What was that?" Leon asked as I stood, waiting for him to lock the car.
"Bettsuni," I said shaking my head as we walked into the small, homey restaurant. We were quickly seated, and a serving girl came over to take our orders.
"Mushu pork, sweet and sour pork, and two egg rolls." Was what Leon ordered, without even looking at the menu to see the cost. I, on the other hand, had to watch my money, so I ended up getting just one thing.
"Just an egg roll please." The young girl smiled and nodded, taking the menus from us and promising to have the food ready shortly. But of course, my partner had a much different reaction.
"Huh?! Are you okay Daley?"
"I'm fine."
"But didn't you say you were hungary?" I nodded in response. "Then why the hell did you order one egg roll?!"
"That's all I wanted!" I snapped at Leon. Again. Damn. I thought I had this under control now, but I guess not. And that dream this morning really screwed with my head even more. Leon looked at me side ways and shrugged, looking down to his food. "I think you should really order more. It'll be on me."
Oh didn't I wish. But I wasn't going to let junior here pay. "No it won't."
"Yes it will."
"It will not."
"Yuh-huh."
"Nope."
"Yup."
"No."
"Yeah."
"NO!"
"Yes."
I glared at him. He wasn't going to make this any easier. Fine, I would just have to make sure that he wouldn't want to treat me out to lunch again. I flagged down another waitress and asked to add a few things to my order. Leon-poo didn't seem to hear me, so he was in for a real treat. He leaned back and sighed, "glad you finally decided to take my advice."
"Aa."
"So what did you order?"
"Oh, you'll see."
"Linna, the other day, didn't you say something about getting a new, and better job than your previous one?" Sylia asked the aforementioned woman as she stood next to her, watching Mackey as he and Nene tried to help a few of her more knowledgeable customers. Or rather, Mackey was trying to help the customers and becoming very flustered in the process. So Nene had gone and decided to try and help Mackey. Only she ended up just confusing the poor teenager even more.
"Yep! I did." Linna replied, trying to keep a straight face as she too watched the two teenagers trying to help.
"Where did you end up getting a job?" Countered Sylia as she rang up a few purchases for a customer.
Linna beamed as she answered. "AD Police! I'm working with Nene!"
Sylia raised her a delicate eyebrow at Linna's energetic response. "The AD Police? So have you met the man who seems to be stealing Priss's heart?"
Linna nodded as she answered. "Yep. I've met Leon. He's a real brick. I don't see whatever it is that Priss sees in him. But he has one weird partner."
"Really? From how I've always heard Nene talk about him he seems to be the brains behind the partnership."
"If he's the brains, they're some pretty crazy ones. He went nuts yesterday when Leon fell asleep at his desk. He started screaming, and threw us both out of the office." Linna retold the story to Sylia in great detail, embellishing her parts in it. "But get this." She added, as almost an afterthought.
"What?"
"Daley just got back from a sick leave."
"Really? What did he have?"
"Mono."
"..." There was a brief moment of silence and then Sylia broke down laughing, very out of character. "I-Isn't that what Priss had?!" She demanded in-between fits of laughter. Nene cocked her head and began to laugh as well. "Wasn't it be funny if Daley had given it to Priss behind Leon-poo's back as some sort of revenge?" Linna and Mackey began to laugh as well.
"'Specially since it back-fired!" Linna exclaimed, the whole room continued to laugh and somewhere Leon, Daley were sneezing.
Priss rubbed her sore throat, though it wouldn't do much good and fell back onto the bed in her trailer. Reaching out the the nearby desk, she fished around for the phone she had, about to call some one that was on her mind. After a few more moments for grappling for the electronic, she reached the piece of wires and metal. She dialed a familiar number and waited as it rang.
She shifted over to her side, straightening out the orange tank top as it rang.
"Hello, McNichols?"
"Yo."
"Priss? What's up?"
Priss coughed into a clenched fist away from the phone, and then talked back into it.
"Got sick. Bored. What are you doing?"
"I'm at lunch with Daley, what about you? How did you get sick again?"
"It isn't my fault."
"Do you know what it is?"
"Uh, doc Gensai said that it was a flu because I was still weak from mono."
"Oh, did he say anything else about the mono that you shouldn't be doing?"
"Shouldn't be stressing myself out."
"Hold on."
In the background, Priss heard Leon stressing to his partner not to get stressed out. Followed by a shout about 'how the hell couldn't I with a bone-head like you for a partner?!'
"Ok, back."
"He's right, you know."
"Oh, you're the nicest person I know too."
"Well, I called to thank you with your help through the mono, but I don't want you to come by anymore."
"Why not?"
"Because I won't need your help."
"But I want to help."
"Leon, you're a good guy, but you're just not the kind of guy I want. You know I still hate the ADP, and if you tell anyone about why, I'll personally kill you."
"You know, that is illegal to threaten a police officer like that."
"Screw that."
". . . "
"Ja."
Priss hung the phone up and and turned the devise on again, calling Nene.
"Nene the great here!" The perky voice called and Priss shook her head.
"Yo."
"Hey Priss! To what do I owe the honor?"
"Just thought I would tell the little junior match-maker that I broke up things with Leon."
"Yay!! That means that I can start to work on Leon and Daley! You know that Wong has this funny addiction when it comes to Leon!"
"Nani? You mean he's like Linna?"
"Ha!! So it wasn't just me! I knew that she swung that way!!"
"Aa. So how are you going to get them together?"
"I'm going to make a phone call! Ya wanna help, Priss?"
"Not really."
"OK then! Ja! I'll talk to you some other time! And I will also send you a Nene-gram with the news, kay?"
"Aa. Ja."
CLICK
Nene laughed to herself as she looked back to the other people in the room. "Time to play match-maker again! Sylia? You don't have anything for me to do right now, right?" Sylia shook her head, crossing her arms. "Just don't be too long, you don't want to make anyone really mad at you this afternoon, especially your colleagues." Nene nodded and dialed her phone once more.
"McNichols."
"Heya Leon-poo! I heard you got dumped by Priss!!"
"What's it to you, Romanova?! She's just shy..."
"Ha! Priss, shy? That'll be the day! But anyway, I just called to let you know that true love might be closer than you think."
"What are you talking about?! Don't tell me you have a crush on me!"
"BAKA! No way in hell!! Not that I don't think you're the kind of person someone could grow to like, I have someone! So there! Ha, Mr. Date less!"
"Now, what was this call supposed to be about again?"
"Give Daley a chance."
"NANI?!"
"Yup, why did you think he has put up with you all of time, huh?"
"But... but...." his voice dimmed, that was when she remembered that Linna had told her that Daley was having lunch with the dough-boy right then. Oops. Well, really close then.
"Umm, yeah, so why don't you invite him over tonight?"
CLICK
Nene giggled as she eyed the phone in her hand. "Well then! I guess Leon will have to become aware of Daley's addiction on his own!
OWARI
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